Did you hear about this?

Over the weekend in Harlem, New York, a Columbia architecture professor, Lionel McIntyre, clocked a woman, Camille Davis in the face at a bar. McIntyre who is black got into it with Davis, a white woman, during an argument about race. A bar back said the punch was so loud that the kitchen staff could hear it over the Luther Vandross playing in the bar. McIntyre was charged with assault, and Davis showed up to school with sunglasses on to conceal the bruise.

So, what can be gleaned from this? Well, for starters, the obvious: don’t go into a predominantly black area and talk race with a black person. Yeah, it sucks that this woman got smoked in the mug, but come on; you don’t go into a gay bar telling everyone you were in Blockbuster for an hour looking for Philadelphia in the comedy section. She didn’t have it coming, but it could have been avoided.

The only time a black man should hit a white woman is in the deleted scenes of Rocky when Apollo Creed pimp-slaps Adrian for taking the last line of blow at the after-party.

Goddard Out.